Credit Suisse Business School and Novartis Corporate Learning have successfully gone through the CLIP re-accreditation process and has been accredited for further five years.

The official Awarding Ceremony took place in Oestrich-Winkel  (Wiesbaden), Germany on 7 June 2010, during the EFMD Annual Conference. Currently, one other major European Corporate University is under the CLIP process.

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Why CLIP?

Companies are under ever greater pressure to manage their learning and people development processes strategically.

Critical objectives include:

• Attracting and retaining the best managers,
• Nurturing tomorrow's leaders
• Aligning strategy, competencies and behaviours,
• Disseminating knowledge and expertise throughout the organisation,
• Integrating the learning function into mainstream HR processes such as management development, talent management, succession planning, etc.,
• Shifting the emphasis from training to learning,
• Performance improvement.

To meet these challenges, the learning and training function in many firms has been re-engineered and hierarchically upgraded to give it a central strategic role in the form of Corporate Universities, Corporate Business Schools, Academies, Management Institutes, and so on.

Most of these corporate universities are still relatively young organisations in Europe. However, they are beginning to reach a stage of maturity in which there is a felt need for more sophisticated means of assessment than are currently available in order to measure their effectiveness and justify the investments made in them.

EFMD's Corporate Learning Improvement Process has been created to provide such a tool for a new profession. Drawing on the EQUIS quality assessment methodology, CLIP seeks to identify the key factors that determine quality in the design and functioning of corporate learning organisations.

Internal self-assessment against a comprehensive set of rigorous criteria, defined and constantly updated by leading members of the Corporate University community, is combined with external review by experienced peers.

CLIP is a mechanism for quality benchmarking, mutual learning and sharing of good practice.

CLIP is a service for EFMD members. The CLIP scheme is monitored by a Steering Committee made up of leading professionals in the field, including Chief Learning Officers from major companies, with input from Executive Education specialists from major European Business Schools.